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Otr 75fh Anniversary Year ville Schuylkill County Greatest Newspaper VOL. CLI-NO. 109 POTTSVILLE, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1960 SEVEN CENTS Language TODAY'S TOP LOCAL STORIES Pews BUCAN S. Uses Blunt ynwfmi I To Rebuke Castro's Cfo oes WORSE Sends Anfi-U. New High in Four hundred at forum endorse proposals for fund to press protest against water rate increase.

Cressona Council protests proposed passenger train curtailment; enacts 50 cents per pole inspection fee for 200 utility poles. Find Tamaqua woman, 87, fatally burned in kitchen of home. New Ringgold R. D. boy, 5, darts in path of car at McKeans-burg intersection; is fatally injured.

Great American sin is apathy, New York authority on subversion warns Mahantongo Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution. Garment workers give March of Dimes $1,400 raised through fashion show. Technical errors in arrest information result in dismissal of charges against three motorists. Suit claims Schuylkill Haven R. D.

girl disfigured and disabled from injuries suffered when she was struck by a car while crossing highway. The Branch Township School Board protests reduction in royalty payments under county-granted coal land lease. Details of these stories elsewhere in today's newspaper. EXPECTED TO GROW Ship Blast Feeling to HAVANA (AP) Anti-Ameri can feeling boiled to a new high in Cuba today. It was expected to get even worse in the wake of Secretary of State Christian A.

Herter's denunciation of Fidel Castro. There was no immediate offi cial reaction to Herter's censure, but officials privately predicted U.S. Charge d'Affaires Daniel Braddock might be summoned before Foreign Minister Raul Rao for a similar tongue lashing. Herter Monday termed as "baseless, erroneous and misleading" Castro's implication that the U.S. government was responsible for the series of explosions that ripped the French munitions ship La Coubre in Havana harbor Fri day.

Commentators oit the government television station reported the U.S. secretary's remarks mockingly. Word of Herter's angry response came from Washington amid these developments: Death Toll Climbs To 52 Officially identified bodies of the La Coubre blast victims mounted to 52. Many dead were still un- identified. At least a score of persons were critically injured.

Don Chapman, of North Bend, 26 year old passenger Unconfirmed reports said an un-aboard the freighter, finally flew identified plane coming from the to Miami after a two-hour air-" port detention that followed his release from a 72-hour grilling. The free lance photographer ville Water Co. Fred GoetzvPottsville, rises to question possible effects of protest that the meeting voted to file with the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission. Citizens are heard Pottville High School against proposed 30 per at protest meeting held in Auditorium Monday night cent raise in rates of Potts- 400 AT RALLY VOTE PROTEST WATER HIKE for taking the protest to the Attorney William Balitas. chairman of the fund raising committee, said that it will cost about $18,000 to present an effective protest before the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission.

The crowd cheered when Balitas declared, "The Pottsville Water Co. is prepared to fepend $50,000 to get the increase and we must be ready to spend at least one-third as much to defeat it." Will Drive For Funds Balitas announced that a fund raising drive will be held in all of the affected communities on the evening of March 15 beginning at 6 p.m. He suggested that if everyone would contribute one-third of their quarterly water bill, the necessary amount could be. raised. Pottsville City Solicitor Harry Lightstone outlined the procedure i A- 4r 1 ''LJkJ JL vj) i f) i s'SLi 1 Tt-i Tl V- -'t Hang Negro From Tree of K's Info Chest Mi Four voters in this tiny mountain village who cast their ballots solidly for Richard Nixon in nation's first primary display sign made up in advance by Coos County Republican leaders who were sure of the outcome.

From left are Elmer Annis, Mrs. Harold Baxter, Mrs. Annis, town clerk, and Baster, towp moderator. Voters cast ballots one minute after midnight. (AP Photofax) S.

Cuba was taken off a Miami bound plane minutes before it departed and held at the airport -but was released in time to catch the next plane. He told newsmen Cuban officials accused him at the last minute of being in Cuba on Jan. 1, 1959, when Castro took power. He insisted he had never been in Cuba before. Cuba 161 sugar mills were ordered to sound their whistles for one hour Monday night in protest against a proposed U.S.

bill to re strict Cuba's preferential sugar quota. north dropped nre Domes on a 'sugar plantation in Pinar del Rio province, burning more than 3,000 'tons of sugar cane. actual indication of voter senti ment into the presidential outlook, as distinct frpm polls, straw votes, and the calculated optim- ism of politicians. Indirectly, it pitted Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon against Democratic Sen.

John F. Kenpedy of Massachusetts. Both stressed the importance of See N. HAMPSHIRE, Page 2 expressed doubt that the Com missioners could break a lease already signed, but said they should see to it that more ad vantageous leases should be signed in the future. He said that a mine royalty board is to be set up that will set a standard royalty of 40 cents.

See BRANCH, Pare 2 Fire Traps 15 Miners LOGAN, W. Va. (AP) Fifteen miners were trapped by a fire four miles underground in the Holden No. 22 Mine of the Is land Creek Coal Co. today.

Two others brushed past the flames and sounded the alarm. Mine officials said. "We have every reason to believe all will be rescued." The fire was reported under control at 1 p. some four hours after it broke out. N.

T. Camicia, vice president of operations at Holden, 25 miles southwest of here, said, "Two crews of our own men are mak ing their way toward them by a iback heading." r60 WASHINGTON (AP) In blunt language rarely heard in the polite world of diplomacy, the United States has accused Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro of "extremely provocative and "irresponsible" charges against this country. The angry protest was in an swer to Castros accusation Satur day that U.S. officials may have been responsible for the death- dealing explosion of a European munitions shipment March 4 in Havana harbor. Secretary of State Christian A.

Herter called this "baseless, erroneous and misleading." Herter delivered the dressing down personnaly to the Cuban charge d'affaires, Enrique Patter son, and immediately made the text of his remarks available to newsmen. The Cuban, dearly upset by the 20-minute session in Herter's of fice, left the State Department hurriedly. He said he would report Herter's statement to Castro with out comment Herter wound up his statement by saying: "This government finds itself increasingly obliged to question the good faith of your excellency's government with re spect to a desire for improved relations between our govern ments. CommenUtors Mock U. -In Havana, Cuban TV commen tators read Herter's remarks on the air In mocking lanes, smiling at certain passages and then add ing the editorial comment that the United States is an aggressor.

One source friction was re moved when Cuban police re leased Donald Chapman, "26, an American photographer who had taken passage on the French freighter that blew up. Chapman had been questioned for days, bat was released Monday. But he was removed from a Miami-bound plane and taken into custody a second time before being permitted to fly to Miami. Castro's charges concerning the munitions ship have brought Am erican-Cuban relations to a new low. High State Department sources made it clear the official VS.

mood has gone, beyond irritation to anger. One official said: "We have hqw patience in our" relationships with Cuba, despite a series of great but we are not going to sit back and take things like this." Paar Returns, CutOff Again NEW YORK (API Jack Paar made a triumphal return to bis NBC television show Monday night. Within an hour the tart-tongued comedian had talked himself into censorship again. Two network v4ce presidents were on hand Monday night and conferred with Paar immediately after the show was taped. An hour later, the network announced Paar had "agreed to the omission of a brief personal reference." When the tape was broadcast, it was evident shortly after midnight that the brief personal refer ence was a 10-word reference to columnist Walter Wmcbell made during a vitriolic attack on the press, and the Hearst newspapers in particular.

NEAR ZERO COLD TONIGHT COLO AND CLEAk Central, Northeastern Pennsylvania (Schuylkill): Clearing and very cold again tonight, with low 5 below zero in northwest to 14 above in southeast. Wednesday increasing cloudiness and continued cold with some snow likely in af ternoon or night in western mountains. High Wednesday 22 in northwest to 34 in northeast. South eastern Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Southern New Jersey: Fair and cold tonight. Low tonight in the teens.

Mostly cloudy Wednesday. High 30-25. A weather forecaster said today be expects no heavy snow the rest of the week in Pennsylvania. "If we get anything it will be on the light side like Monday night," said Ken Hagy, a forecast er for the S. Weather Bureau in Philadelphia.

"Nothing heavy is forseen," Hagy added. "But I can't say after this week. "We'll just have to wait and see. March is notorious for heavy snow." The Weather Bureau, meanwhile forecast snow flurries and light snow i or western ana central Pennsylvania today and Wednes day with continued sub-freezing temperatures. Sun Rises 6:28 a.

m. Sun Sets 6:04 p. m. TEMPERATURES 7 a. 11 a.

9 a. 1 p'. PTJC. He said that specially trained lawyers, engineers, and accountants will be needed for the presentation. The Water he explained, has already employed such ex perts to prepare its case.

The argument that the company will present to the PUC is that it is now realizing a profit of only See 400, rage 2 by Heels, CAROLINA Hampshire Vote i A I 1 vv jf- WW tf a Ti is, '-If K''" z. 4 -f a Struck By Car, New Ringgold Boy, 5, Killed A five-year-old New Ringgold R. D. 2 boy was fatally injured at 4:45 p. Monday, when struck by a car at the inter sections of Routes 443 and 895 in McKeansburg.

Schuylkill Haven state police said the boy, James R. Siluk, ran into the path of an auto driven by Edward Reichelderfer, 46, of 415 N. Warren Orwigsburg Reichelderfer said he the brakes but was unable to avoid hitting the child. The boy, was taken to Pottsville Hospital in the Orwigsburg Community Ambulance. He died there at 6 p.

from internal and bead injuries. The child, a son of John R. and Edith E. Hess Siluk, was born in Pottsville. He was a member of the Begin ners Class of Christ Union Church off McKeansburg.

Surviving are the parents, a brother, John 11, at home; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Amandus Hess, McKeans burg; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Siluk, New Ringgold, R.

D. lr also a number of aunts and uncles. Funeral Saturday afternoon in Christ Union Church at McKeansburg. The Rev. John R.

Gulick, pastor of the church, will officiate at services. Interment in the ad joining cemetery. The Lundbye Funeral Home, Orwigsburg, is in charge of arrangements. Train Rams Car; 8 Killed BERLIN, Conn. (AP) A pas senger train collided with a station wagon today, killing seven school children and an adult.

The automobile, carrying the children and a woman driver, was hurled into Silver Lake, an ice-crusted five-foot-deeppbnd beside Norton Lane. Police tentatively identified the dead as Mrs. Emily Whitaker of Berlin and seven state wards, all Negroes. At least three of the bodies were held by the sub merged wreckage in the pond. Skin divers were called.

None of the passengers aboard the train the New Haven Railroad's No. 97 bound from Springfield, to New York was injured. The accident occurred at an unprotected grade crossing on Norton Lane, just off the Wilbur Cross Parkway, on a roadway covered with half an inch of snow. It was, near the home of Mrs. Whitaker and her husband, John, who were cited by the' Catholic TranscVipt in 1957 for their care of foster school children.

In 14 years they had cared for 16 foster children. The crash killed some of the car's occupants. Police reports in- N. ay Hold Key to Presidential Choices Assembled citizens of Potts-ville, St Clair, Port Carbon and other areas served by the Potts-ville Water Co. voted unan-simously at a rally on Motaday night to protest the proposed 30 per cent increase in water rates.

Gathered in the Pottsville High School auditorium, the crowd appeared orderly but determined. About -400 were present. Fiiid Woman, 87, Seated In Chair Of Burns An 57-year-old Tamaqua woman whof was found badly 'burned in -the kitahen of her home Monday afternoon died in, Coal-dale State Hospital at 8:10 last night. The victim, Miss Emma Rich- ards, 248 Broad 'St, Tama- two feet: from a kitchen coal range. All her clothing except for- stockings and bedroom had been burned from her body.

Bits of charred clothing i' lx-pT-o frumrl i an th floor Thf 1 floor and a nearby door frame were Miss Richards clothing may have been ignited by the stove. The "tragedy was discovered by Charles Fredericks, Tamaqua handyman who tends the furnace in the building where Miss Rich ards resided. Fredericks sum moned Dr. Gordon Weaver from his nearby office. Dr.

Weaver ordered her' removal to Coaldale State. Hospital in Tamaqua: Com- munity Ambulance. She was admitted at 4:20 p.m. Deputy Coroner John Puschak, Coaldale, who was summoned to the" hospital said death was accidental and; due to third burns of thej body. A lifelong resident of Tamaqua, Miss Richards was a daughter of the late Henry and Anna Kevern Richards.

She was a odist Church, Tamaqua. Surviving rare a nephew, William C. Richards and a great- nephew, William C. Richards both of Harlan, Ky. TT 1 nfm.nM from Thomas L.

Davis Funeral Home, Tamaqua, with interment in I.D.O.F. Cemetery, Tamaqua. Fill Mine Pit At Mt. Carmel MAPPTCRITRfl AT1 An facial low bid of $21,527 -was submitted to the State Mines Department today for filling and grading an abandoned open pit mine in Mount Carmel Northumberland County. W.

H. Thomas and Shamokin, submitted the bid. There were five other bidders. The mine; was. abandoned prior to the 1947 state law requiring own backfilling when they apan- The property is owned the Reading Anthracite Co.

The state is undertaking the sealing operation to "alleviate a dangerous condition in? the interest of public welfare." Such a stipulation permits expenditure of public funds. The pit will be graded, from the surface level of the high wall to Hie bottom rock on a grade of 1 to one The mine; is located southwest of Mount Carmel borough Dying PA CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The farflung, intricate mechanics of choosing a president of the United States reached the ballot box stage today when New Hampshire voters went to the polls in the nation's first presidential pri mary of 1960. Voting places generally open at 7 a.m. and in the cities close as late as 8 pjn.

The forecast of clear weather, town meetings and an angry last-minute clash brought estimates of a total vote of more than 100,000. That is only a handful by com parison with the millions of bal lots still to be cast in forthcoming primaries. But politically. New Hampshire is a midget with a heavyweight's punch. Today's election brings the first Carve Tex.

(AP) Four masked, white youths hung a Ne gro man from a tree by bis heels Monday night and scratched two series of KKKs into his chest and stomach after beating him with chains, the Negro told police. Felton Turner, 21, said he freed himself, from ropes around his ankles and wrists staggered to a night watchman's shack and telephoned police. A doctor at Jefferson Davis Hospital said Turner was treated and released this morning. The six Ks ranged from IV2 inches to 3 inches sin length and went from Turner's chest to his stomach, the doctor Rope marks were on the Negro's wrists and ankles. Police said Turner told them he was walking near his home in a Negro residential area at 10:15 p.m.

when two masKea wmie youths leaped from a car and grabbed, him. They carried guns and forced him into the back seat of a sedan. Two other masked white youths were in the front seat, Turner told officers. Turner said he struggled to free T. See HANG, Page 2 DemoChairman! Apologizes For WASHINGTON (AP) Demo cratic National Chairman Paul M.

Butler, has apologized for saying President Eisenhower has "something to answer for" to the wives and children of Navy bandsmen killed in a plane crash at Rio de Janeiro. Butler told a news conference Monday he had not meant to imply that the President was "in any way responsible for the tragic deaths of the Americans." The subject came up in a de bate Butler had with Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) night at Worcester, Mass. Butler- questioned the use of part of the Navy Band during Eisenhower's tour of South America. The 19 bandsmen" killed were en route to Rio to play for the President and Brazil ian officials.

Scott jumped up and told Butler "this; attempt to put blood on the hands of the President is not very creditable." Butler retorted: "I don't put blood on the. hands of the Presi dent. We Democrats never attacked Eisenhower withj such cruelty as the Republicans attacked Franklin D. Roosevelt. We never questioned Eisenhower's loyalty." Aparently winking better of it the next day, Butler again raised the subject at a news conference called to announce plans for some Democratic party public hearings.

"For any such inference that may have been drawn," he said, "I want'to apologize to the Presi- dent and to the American people." Remarks On Ike Series JL Royalty Cut Land Lease Branch Protests In County Coal Felton Turner, 27, in a Houston hospital early this moming shows the six K's he says were carved by vhite youths after they beat him with chains. Felton told police he was taken to a wooded area in Houston where he was gagged and tied to a tree after which the beating and carving took place. (AP Photofax) A delegation from the Branch, Township School District ap- peared before County Commis- sioners Monday to protest lower-'p a ROY A I TY ing of royalty on coal leased byjrMU rvVTLI Joseph Capriotti from 30 to 20 RYAN CONTENDS Campaign TWO SERVED IN N. Negro Spreads in By The ASSOCIATED PRESS and stomach Monday night be-Negro demonstrators claimed a cause of lunch counter demons tra- dicated the others may have died! said that the lease had been re-under water. fused to Wyda because the school was not filed until over a month puter tne renewal was approvea Commissioner Joseph Holden James V.

Ryan today told the "Republican" that he had paid the royalty to the corporation which he understood held the lease on coal hauled in his trucks during December and January. Representatives of the Branch Township School District complained to County Commissioners on Monday that coal had been hauled by Ryan's trucks from a property leased from the county by Charles Martin without payment of royalty. Ryan said that he understood that the lease was held by a corporation rather than by Martin personally. He said that he had paid the royalty to the corpora- when he took over coal thus fulfilling his responsibility in the matter. Ryan added that Branch Township School officials never consulted him with regard to payment of royalty on the coal, neither when he was moving the coal nor since.

cents a ton. School Board president Richard Bush said that this reduction cost the school district close to 51000 a year, although another possible lessor, named Wyda, Lhad offered to pay a royalty of 40 cents. Commissioner Elmer Johnson district had previously reported that he was taking coal from the property without paying any royalty. He said the royalty to Capriotti had been reduced to 20 cents because that was "the going All Took Coal Bush said that all of the coal operators took coal without pay ing royalty until they were reported. He said the lease with Capriotti should be broken on the ground that the school district had filed a written protest against it.

Commissioners, he said, had ignored the protest. Johnson said that the protest South tkns there. Police said Felton Turner, 27, quoted one of the youths as say- See NEGRO, Page 2 '58 Miss America Delays Wedding DENVER, Colo. (AP) The Dlanned June weddine for Mar ilyn vanderbur. Miss America of 1958, is off.

Miss Vanderbur, student at Col-rado University, announced Monday she bad broken her engagement with Gary Nady, 26, a CU graduate student and former varsity football player. "She told me she wants to pursue a career in television," Nady said. victory in North Carolina today as the growing anti segregation) campaign entered its sixth week; and spread into the eighth South ern, state. Students in two North Carolina cities seeking equal eating, facil ities at' traditionally segregated lunch counters were served while seated Monday, apparently it was the first time this had haDDened in the state where the current! wave of sitdowns started. Picket Theatre The first demonstration in West Virginia took a new form.

Stu dents paraded at a motion picture theater protesting segregated seating arrangements. A Negro reported in Houston that four white youths beat him and carved six Ks into his chest I Whitaker was watchiag from window of his home 100 yards away when he saw the diesel engine and the 1955 station yagon pile together. He ran to the scene but was helpless. The vehicle was thrown over a 10-foot embankment into the pond. Three of the children were hurled from the car, one landing on the embankment and two skidding across the ice on the pond.

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